Horseshoe-pad.



i No. 836,150.

-PATBNTED Nov. 2o, 1906.

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HoRsEsHoE PAD.v

v APPLIATIQN FILED TUNE 6, 1906.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

AUGUST O. TAPPE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ROBERT T. BADGLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

No. 836,1 5o.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

Application filed Tune 6. 1906. Serial No. 320,481.

T0 all whom/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST O. TAPPE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton, State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hoof-Pads, of which the iollowing is a specification.

More speciiically my invention relates to an improvement in that class of hoof-pads which were described andclaimed by me as my invention in Letters Patent of the United States No. 690,482, dated January 7, 1902. By the modication of the pad designed in that patent, which modication is described in full hereinafter, I succeed in obtaining a pad having an air-cushion the suction-power of which is much greater than that in my former pad and which offers a greater resistance to slipping. The new pad is also designed to permit of free ingress and egress of air to and from thehorses hoof in such a way as to prevent the detachment of the rubber from the leather, which is so objectionable in some of the forms of horseshoe-pads heretofore used. The improvement also makes less likely a puncture of the rubber tube in which air is incased.

In the accompanying drawings, which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation in section, showing the pad with its backing of leather and iron shoe nailed to the hooi of the horse. Fig. 2 is a rear sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the rubber pad itself, showing the stitching which secures the rubber to the leather below it. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the leather, showing attachment to the rub ber and also the partitions of the under side of the rubber pad. Fig. 5 shows the top of the pad before the leather is attached to it.

Referring to the drawings, A is the rubber pad, consisting of a flanged part b, thickened heel portion c, raised hollow bead d, and central cavity e. On the top side of the pad forming the inner side of the bead is a cavity f, separated by rubber partitions g.

tions serves to prevent the rubber from becoming detached from the leather at any point of the pad, for they relieve the compression of air in those compartments. It

will be noticed, moreover, that the bead d is elliptical in shape and is adapted to secure a better bearing for the horses hoof. By this construction I also avoid the f ditIiculties caused in my former construction by the central opening in the rubber and the air-passages leading to the channels.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 4 1. A horseshoe-pad, having a thickened heel portion, a thin flange so constructed as to receive a horseshoe, a raised hollow bead, and partitions dividing said hollow bead.

A horseshoe-pad, having a thickened heel portion, a thin flange so constructed as to receive a horseshoe, a raised hollow bead, partitions dividing said hollow bead, and a leather backing for the top of said pad.

3. A horseshoe-pad, having thickened heel portion, a thin iange so constructed as to receive a horseshoe, a raised hollow bead, partitions dividing said hollow bead, a leather backing for said pad, said leather having air-apertures over each chamber, into which said hollow bead is divided.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of May, 1906.

AUGUST C. TAPPE.

In presence of- OLARENGE G. GALsToN, H. E. BEOPHY. 

